Just installed this and it works fine. This is a very simple and effective WPF application. A row of 6 or so buttons on the left as a menu and a grid/list view that shows off mini-articles that you can click on and then view the full article. this would have been much much trickier to implement in Winforms.

Still unfinished, but a basic WPF application, that shows the fade in transition being put to good use. Still a bit sliugish to respond, don't know if it's WPF or the streaming (or however it gets the data - not checked out the code yet)

Useful to know how this works coz Windows Live Writer has been a roaring success and this certainly has it's uses.

When I first launched it after installation it didn't have any content (there was a little yellow info triangle on the reload button but no clue as to what was causing it). I closed it and relaunched and it worked fine.

I don't much like how it handles the mouse scroll wheel. It's really easy to accidentally switch to the previous or next article when scrolling within an article, depending on where the focus is.

what a great piece of work. it's definitely better than VS.Net Start Page. and i agree, that the start page should be replaced with this. it still need some polish, the mouse scroll behavior just does not work for me. it surprised me when i want to scroll/skim through the pages just to find suddenly im looking at another article. i personally doesnt really like the fade-out fade-in effect. makes me dizzy and wayyy to flashy for reading a 'magazine' or 'newspaper'. may need some consideration regarding the controls placements and the usabilities, but nevertheless this is a wonderful software. great job

hmm... i just noticed that msdn reader seems not sorting the articles it displays. im suprised that an article from 2006 made a headline in one of the category while the article below the headline have dats like 2007. is it just my msdn reader?